'Stealing' wins

"He's spot on," said Keselowski. "We have not been the best car the last three weeks.

"This week we were probably a top three or four car. The 78 (Truex) was clearly the best car, and we put everything together when it counted and kind of stole it. Same scenario the last two weeks.

"I thought the (Kyle Larson) was the best car in Darlington, and we hit the strategy right and executed the last pit stop and that put us in position to win.

"And in Indy we were nowhere near probably even a top-10 car. We were probably a 15th-place car, and (crew chief) Paul Wolfe hit the strategy right and I hit the restart right to make all the passes when it counted and won that race.

"With that in mind, I feel like we stole the last three races. We're not complaining, but we still have a lot of work to do to go out there and win heads up without those issues."

Lucky horseshoe

Truex joked that "Brad clearly found a horseshoe", and said Keselowski's results showed criticism of the current NASCAR season for being predictable was unfair.

"Three races in a row he's won and he has not had the best car," said Truex.

"If you want to really talk about the sport being what it is, you've got to look at that.

"Obviously he hasn't led the most laps in any of those races, and he showed up at the end with good pitstops and good short run speed.

"Clearly it's pretty obvious how it worked out. He's hot right now. He's on a streak."